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The ACS Annual Cancer Programs Conference, September 5–7, provides attendees with cutting-edge ways to deliver high-quality, patient-centered, multidisciplinary care. You will leave this conference reinvigorated and ready to overcome the challenges facing you as a cancer care provider.

Rectal cancer programs interested in earning accreditation from the new National Accreditation Program for Rectal Cancer may now apply. The goal of the new rectal cancer accreditation program is to ensure patients receive appropriate care using a multidisciplinary team approach.

Study results show that nearly doubling the benchmark number of lymph nodes removed during operations for right-sided colon cancers improves the survival rate for these patients, according to researchers who presented these findings at the 2018 American College of Surgeons (ACS) Quality and Safety Conference. The investigators collected data from the National Cancer Database (NCDB).